Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
6308
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
The Royal Playhouse Cinema
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213252
Northing
200613
Street Side
N
Location
On the N side of White Lion Street next to the Royal Gatehouse Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Cinema, former assembly rooms. Originally built c1857 as assembly rooms, with an entrance described as 'like a pepper-pot, between a Turkish minaret and a Chinese pagoda'. Remodelled in 1865 by H Maule-ffinch with a new front portico of 8 Tuscan columns, in time for the lunch for Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, on the day of the unveiling of the statue of his father, Prince Albert, August 1865. Burnt down 1880 and reconstructed with present simpler facade. Interior subsequently altered in earlier C20 to a cinema, the gallery extended in 1914. The present gallery looks of the 1920s, but little else survives of that interior.
Exterior
Cinema, painted stucco with corrugated asbestos roofs. Facade of 1-3-1 bays, with parapet, cornice and central pedimented projection with blank roundel to moulded pediment. Centre has 3 tall arched recesses, the centre one slightly larger with small blind arched panel. Framing of 4 thin pilasters carrying 3 moulded arches. Side bays have similar arched tall recess with blind arched panel, pilaster framing with moulded arches. Centre plain square headed double doors with overlight, outer bays have single doors. Roughcast plain side walls.
Interior
Mostly altered, a gently pitched curved fronted balcony survives with Art Deco type motifs on the front. The proscenium arch with cornice and fluted pilasters mentioned in 1977 has gone.
Reason for designation
Included for street facade and as the remains of a C19 assembly room.
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